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Some thoughts on Taylor Swift and the Eras Tour movie

I’ve been thinking a lot about Taylor Swift recently, but then again who hasn’t? Even if you’re not a fan, or a full blown Swiftie (and yes, it’s possible to be the former but not the latter) assuming you are an American over the age of seven with a pulse, you have almost definitely been exposed to Taylor Swift and the Eras Tour in some capacity over the past six months. As I finish typing this sentence my wife walks into the room, AirPods in, listening to a CEO-hosted town hall meeting and laughs “this guy’s talking about Taylor Swift right now.”

Swift is a cultural force unlike any we’ve experienced in a long time, perhaps ever. Her omnipresence calls to mind what Sarah Silverman’s publicist character says about Andy Samberg's Conner4Real in the great Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. “We'd like to get to the point where Conner is everywhere, like oxygen or gravity or clinical depression.”

From burgeoning high-profile NFL romances to re-recording album announcements to wildly speculative and at times unhinged New York Times stories, Taylor Swift has had varying degrees of dominance in the news cycle this past summer. She’s been essentially a household name since, let’s say 2008, the year she released her sophomore album Fearless. This is all to say I’ve been thinking about Taylor Swift generally because it’s nearly impossible not to, and specifically because I saw the Eras Tour movie yesterday. Like many of her albums, or the 10-minute long version of "All Too Well," it is overlong and uneven and yet still an absolute triumph.

The viewing experience was an ideal one for me. I saw it at the Logan Theater at 3:30 on Sunday with my friend Alex and twelve other people in attendance. When buying tickets, the theater employee said “Yeah, I don’t know why these are more expensive than everything else.” Aside from the fact that Swift simply can charge double the average movie ticket price ($10.53) and still sell out theaters nationwide, I noticed a more obvious reason right there on the ticket stub. Pre-tax, $19.89. There are few things Swift loves more than a coy reference to her mythologized catalogue or an easter egg for fans to tirelessly decode…one is presumably money.

Which is working out well for her! The movie has grossed around $96 million domestically in its opening weekend and $130 million globally. When watching the movie, or even just listening to her music, it’s sometimes hard to separate the artist (her fame, her millions, her personal life, etc) from the art. As her star has risen, the perception of Swift has become something closer to deity than human being singing about the trials of teenage and young adult life. It’s why a lyric like “I thought I saw you at the bus stop, I didn't though” from “the 1” sounds a bit absurd coming from Taylor Swift, unless of course you interpret this as “I was in the backseat of my fully tinted SUV and thought I saw YOU at a bus stop.” Then again, that would imply Taylor Swift knows anyone who rides the bus, which is itself somewhat implausible.

Ultimately, the reason the Eras movie works—and why the tour itself has been the most successful of all time, if we’re going by dollars and cents—is because the music overshadows these distractions. Not completely, but enough. Taylor Swift is a once in a generation songwriter and a phenomenally talented performer. She also, to paraphrase a tone deaf quote from one of her more recent enemies, works her ass off. She is deserving of her level of adoration (within reason, of course) and of every dollar she has earned.

Questions of what she’s like as a person, the degree to which her image and every move are carefully constructed with a team, how she behaves in her relationships—in theory, none of these things should really matter. They do, however, because 1. we’re naturally curious to know more about the personal lives of the artists we love and 2. a large portion of Swift’s catalogue is at least somewhat autobiographical. But they ought not to! Look, the old presidential candidate question of “could I have a beer with her” might be fun to ponder, but ultimately the answer is essentially worthless when applied to pop stars like Taylor Swift. I really hope Swift is a kind, considerate, authentic person. There is plenty of evidence supporting that she is. She does nice things for her fans (it’s also all in the service of self-promotion, but they’re still nice), seems to be well-liked within her circle of also very famous friends, and she gave $100,000 bonuses to each of her fifty or so Eras tour truck drivers.

The flip side of that coin, is that there is a very good chance that Swift is also at times unpleasant, elitist, extremely difficult to work with, and somewhat annoying/cringe. In other words, she is human. She has been chasing and achieving success and fame in the music industry since she was seventeen years old and, to state the obvious, has never had a normal adult life. She has been very publicly wronged by fellow artists and managers and hounded mercilessly by the press. Her relationships, both platonic and romantic, have been under a microscope for the duration of her career. And while some might say she has invited such scrutiny by writing songs that reference said relationships, she’s still entitled to privacy and respect, and is often granted neither.

The long and the short if it is, it makes complete sense that Taylor Swift is potentially not a walk in the park, because she’s the most famous person in the world and has been through some shit. Watch Miss Americana and draw conclusions for yourself, to the extent that you believe that’s possible.

I entered the Eras movie with all of this baggage that comes with Swift, and it fresh in my mind from having recently read the aforementioned NYT piece. And again I was reminded that, for the most part, it’s not important. The movie took me back to when I saw Swift live in 2018 on the Reputation Tour and reminded me that, while all the external noise surrounding Swift the public figure can be overwhelming, the experience of Swift the musician, Swift the performer is basically unmatched in music today…and even a bit magical.

The visuals, performances, production, choreography—all of it is dazzling and terrific. Much has been made of Swift’s dancing and her vocal range, considered by many to be inferior to female pop contemporaries like Beyonce, Rihanna, and Dua Lipa. Those are fair and accurate criticisms but anyone who claims Taylor Swift is a bad dancer or has significant vocal limitations is fundamentally full of shit. She’s a good dancer! She can’t do what Beyonce does, but she’s really solid! And she’s got some pipes too. Again, she does not have Beyonce or Adele pipes, but in her defense I submit hair raising moments like in “Ready for It” or “Shake It Off” where she really lets the vocals soar and does so beautifully. What’s wonderful about the way Swift dances, the way she sings is that it’s authentically Taylor Swift. Which makes it a whole range of things—fun, joyful, exuberant, spooky, sexy, and above all precise.

It’s a concert film, so they’re not going to include any fuck-ups, but I’d be shocked if there’s been a single major false step or missed note on the Eras Tour, or probably on any of her 2-3 previous tours. Taylor Swift is an undeniable pro. There is nothing loose and shaggy about these performances, which will surprise no one familiar with Taylor Swift and her work. Even the spoken word interludes feel rehearsed at times, which I’ve found a bit irritating in the past, but I’ve come around to. Swift shares a bond with her fans and she wants to talk about it, which in turn perpetuates this bond. No, she cannot possibly be surprised she sold out SoFi stadium, but I genuinely believe her when she gushes about how overwhelmed and honored she is to perform for 65,000 people. When she shares with the audience that The Eras Tour is the most incredible and meaningful thing she’s ever been a part of, it gave me chills. Even the most hardened cynic cannot deny that Taylor Swift has brought a tremendous amount of joy to the world, made her fans feel empowered and strong, set a great example for young women (and men!), and touched countless people emotionally.

Alas, The Eras movie is not perfect. While the Evermore-section includes some cool druid-esque cloaks and backup dancers carrying glowing orbs, it is too long. More deserving eras (can we please just call them albums, since that’s what they are?) in turn get minimal attention, namely Speak Now and the self-titled debut, which receive one song each. And back to my point about Swift doing cringe-worthy stuff, moments like her putting her hands in a heart shape upon finishing a song or leaning her mic to a backup dancer who proclaims “LIKE EVER!!” during “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” are tough to watch. Swift exudes some serious theater-kid energy during songs like “Tolerate It” which features her crawling across a long dining table towards a backup dancer/scorned lover stand-in, throwing glasses and flowers on the floor. I’m not sure it works.

These complaints are minimal compared to the unevenness of the song selection. Taylor Swift has, without a doubt, the best musical back catalogue of any current pop star. She arguably does not have a single bad album, as even her worst, Reputation, has quite a few good to great songs. The highs are high and the lows are often very low. “Look What You Made Me Do” for example should be retired permanently. I know songs like “22” and “Bad Blood” are fan favorites, but they simply are not particularly good, and they should be swapped out for some of the many many great songs she’s written. Maybe erased from history entirely! Just kidding, please don’t kill me, fellow Swifties.

The only moment during my screening that the audience sang along loudly with was the “my ex-man” chant/rap part of “Shake It Off.” There were a few small children behind me who shouted every word. If it was a full theater with singing/screaming/dancing in the aisles throughout the 2 hour 48 minute runtime, it would have been a very different and probably altogether lousy experience. That being said, I get it. We must not forget a vast number of Swifties/Taylor Swift fans are children, and they want to hear her gooey, kid-friendly hits. At the same time though, this is not a through and through kid-friendly show. Swift drops two f-bombs. There’s some suggestive dancing. That’s about it.

But, I think this is enough to warrant a full reworking of the Eras movie setlist, yanking some of those tunes that appeal to 7 to 13-year-olds, and including some of the deeper cuts that are, let’s face it, much more sophisticated and interesting songs. So here we go! Below is a side-by-side of the Eras movie setlist and the ideal setlist I would pick—which I have no doubt will still satisfy a good 75-90% of the fanbase. I am confident Taylor’s team will read this post, relay it to her, and she will promptly implement this new, objectively perfect setlist into future Eras Tour stops! Perhaps a new Eras movie in the works as well? Thank you, and you are welcome!

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Characteristics of Milky Way

The primary dependable estimation of the size of the Universe was made in 1917 by American space expert Harlow Shapley. He showed up at his size assurance by laying out the spatial dispersion of globular groups. Shapley viewed that as, rather than a moderately little framework with the Sun close to its middle, as had recently been suspected, the System is monstrous, with the Sun closer the edge than the middle. Expecting that the globular groups illustrated the Cosmic system, he confirmed that it has a measurement of around 100,000 light-years and that the Sun lies around 30,000 light-years from the middle. (A light-year is the distance gone by light in one year and is generally 9,460,000,000,000 km [5,880,000,000,000 miles].) His qualities have held up strikingly well throughout the long term. Depending to a limited extent on the specific part being examined, the heavenly circle of the Smooth Way framework is just comparably enormous as Shapley's model anticipated, with impartial hydrogen to some degree all the more generally scattered and dull (i.e., undetectable) matter maybe filling a considerably bigger volume than anticipated. The most-far off stars and gas billows of the framework that have had their distance dependably resolved lie about 100,000 light-years from the cosmic focus, while the distance of the Sun from the middle has been viewed as roughly 25,000 light-years.

Characteristics of Milky Way The Smooth Way Universe's construction is genuinely run of the mill of a huge twisting framework. (Winding systems and different sorts of universes are depicted in the article world.) This design can be seen as comprising of six separate parts: (1) a core, (2) a focal lump, (3) a plate (both a flimsy and a thick circle), (4) twisting arms, (5) a circular part, and (6) a gigantic radiance. A portion of these parts mix into one another.

At the actual focus of the World lies a noteworthy item — an enormous dark opening encompassed by a growth circle of high-temperature gas. Neither the focal article nor any of the material promptly around it very well may be seen at optical frequencies in view of the thick screen of mediating dust in the Smooth Manner. The item, notwithstanding, is promptly noticeable at radio frequencies and has been named Sagittarius A* by radio cosmologists. To some degree like the focuses of dynamic universes (see underneath), however on a lesser scale, the cosmic core is the site of an extensive variety of action obviously fueled by the dark opening. Infrared radiation and X-beams are produced from the area, and quickly moving gas mists can be seen there. Information unequivocally show that material is being maneuvered into the dark opening from outside the atomic district, including a few gas from the z course (i.e., opposite to the cosmic plane). As the gas approaches the dark opening, the focal item's solid gravitational power fits the gas into a quickly pivoting plate, which broadens outward around 5-30 light-years from the dark opening. Revolution estimations of the circle and the orbital movements of stars (seen at infrared frequencies) demonstrate that the dark opening has a mass in excess of multiple times that of the Sun. (For the infrared perceptions that laid out that Sagittarius A* was a dark opening, American stargazer Andrea Ghez and German space expert Reinhard Genzel were granted the 2020 Nobel Prize for Material science.)

focus of the Smooth Way System Encompassing the core is a drawn out lump of stars that is almost circular in shape and that comprises fundamentally of Populace II stars, however they are similarly wealthy in weighty components. (For a clarification of Populace II stars, see Stars and heavenly populaces.) Blended in with the stars are a few globular groups of comparative stars, and both the stars and the bunches have almost spiral circles around the core. The lump stars should be visible optically where they stand up over the clouding residue of the cosmic plane.

The plate From a distance the most obvious piece of the System would be the plate, which stretches out from the core out to roughly 75,000 light-years. The World looks like other twisting frameworks, including as it does a brilliant, level game plan of stars and gas mists that is fanned out over its whole and set apart by a winding design. The plate can be considered being the fundamental group of stars whereupon the arms are superimposed. This body has a thickness that is approximately one-fifth its width, however various parts have different trademark thicknesses. The most slender part, frequently called the "slight circle," incorporates the residue and gas and the most youthful stars, while a thicker part, the "thick plate," incorporates to some degree more seasoned stars.

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The Best Way For Reheating Fast Food

Be that as it may, everything isn't lost on the off chance that you in all actuality do have to warm your cheap food. You can utilize different techniques — microwave, air fryer, griddle, stove, or even barbecue — yet anything that you do, simply ensure you do it securely and get the interior temperature sufficiently high.

However, heating up cheap food is about something beyond arriving at safe temperatures. You need to revive that pizza, burger, meatball sub, burrito, or seared chicken so it tastes basically the same — or if nothing else almost as great — as when you got it from your #1 cheap food joint in any case. These are The Best Way For Reheating Fast Food

1. Burgers Mcdonald's, Burger Lord, and Wendy's all hold places in the main 10 positioning of drive-through eateries, as per QSR Magazine. They're all burger joints adored by basically everybody.

Meat patties on sesame buns are perhaps of the most notable inexpensive food. The mix of the sweet, delicate bun with sizzling, pungent hamburger makes them compelling to simple humans. Sadly, they don't taste even close as great whenever they've gone cold, and barely any individuals need a warmed burger.

Pass on it to Chrissy Teigen, then, at that point, to cause warmed cheeseburgers to appear to be captivating. In a meeting, she told Spoon College that she purchases McDonald's cheeseburgers in mass, stores them in the cooler, and warms them for 35 seconds in the microwave with the paper covering on. She depicted the warmed burgers as, "Similar to a warm delicate pad, they're thus, so delightful."

In the event that Chrissy's technique appears to be unrealistic, you can utilize the stove all things being equal. Separate the patty from the bun, and warm for six to seven minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Like that, every component of the burger will arrive at the ideal temperature with no parts drying out (by means of The Fork Chomp). Toss out the old lettuce and tomatoes and switch in new veggies.

2. Fries Firm french fries are a typical side in most cheap food places, however in the event that you don't figure out how to eat them while they're actually warm, they rapidly lose their crunch, and their allure. By then, why even annoyance? Discard them and finally let them alone to get some closure, correct?

All things considered, Rachael Beam's Takeout Twins carry a desire to any individual who has a sack of french fries left in the refrigerator. They say baking the French fries in the broiler for 10 minutes will return them to their previous magnificence. There's compelling reason need to add any additional oil since there's still a lot on them from the underlying searing.

Assuming you need another choice, Better Homes and Gardens says utilizing an air fryer to warm food keeps it crunchy outwardly, meaning this smart kitchen machine is the ideal apparatus to give your French fries their depression back. Insider, in the mean time, recommends rapidly profound broiling them once more (in the event that you have the choice at home), giving them an impact in an extremely hot stove, or sautéing them in a little oil. In the event that deciding to sauté, ensure you give the French fries adequate room so they don't steam all things considered.

3. Pizza Recollecting that you have a portion of an extra pizza in the ice chest is a consolation — you will not need to make lunch all things considered. The best part is that it tastes nearly as great cold so you don't need to run the microwave assuming that that seems like a lot of exertion.

Assuming you truly do warm it up, there are a few techniques to browse to reestablish it to its previous greatness. The Take Out Twins from the "Rachael Beam Show" suggest a two-step process. To start with, put a cut in the microwave. Take it out when the cheddar is melty. Then, at that point, singe the covering in a skillet on the burner until it's firm. The garnishes will be warmed through, yet the covering doesn't turn into a saggy wreck.

Spike Mendelsohn, then again, expresses not to microwave pizza. He favors utilizing a waffle iron to warm pizza. Set up two cuts, messy sides confronting each other with the hull outside. Then, put the pizza sandwich in a waffle iron until it gets firm and the cheddar is gooey. The subsequent creation will be the best unexpected barbecued cheddar you've made. You might add additional fixings, as well.

4. Broiled chicken Broiled chicken is an exemplary extra and the ideal food to take on an excursion since you can eat it cold. However, we figure everybody will concur it's better hot. What makes any semblance of Popeyes' and KFC's seared chicken so completely delectable is the pungent, fresh outside joined with the succulent meat inside. Louisiana's neighborhood news source, NOLA.com, says that putting player, flour, or breadcrumbs on chicken prior to searing safeguards its sensitive surface and holds it back from consuming. A similar firm outside likewise makes it harder to warm, as the microwave diminishes it to a soft covering.

In the event that you're considering how to get firm seared chicken each time you warm it, you can have a go at warming it in an air fryer or stove. In a stove, this ought to require close to 15 minutes at 400 degrees Fahrenheit, and has the advantage of giving you less to tidy up, particularly in the event that you put a sheet of aluminum foil on a baking sheet ahead of time. In an airfryer, it ought to require about eight minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Either strategy will save the first surface much better than a microwave at any point will. Simply ensure the inner temperature hits 165 degrees Fahrenheit.

5. Rice In the event that you've at any point requested a family dinner from Panda Express, you realize it accompanies different sides and three courses. One of those sides will probably be seared rice. It's scrumptious, however at supper, individuals center around the honey pecan shrimp or orange chicken and ignore the rice. The following day, this side doesn't look very as engaging as it did the prior night. That is on the grounds that the water isolates from the starch granules in rice leaving them fragile with a slender layer of water on top, as per PBS. That makes rice, broiled or not, difficult to renew.

Culinary specialist David Chang knows how to manage what is going on. At the point when he has additional rice, he makes single-serving bundles with saran wrap and freezes them. At the point when he needs some, he hauls a little pack out and warms it in the microwave for three minutes.

You can likewise reuse extra white rice into seared rice like Chang does (by means of YouTube). Simply heat a skillet, add a touch of oil, hack up a few miscellaneous items from the ice chest, blend in eggs, and sautéed food everything with the rice — it doesn't considerably make any difference in the event that it's now seared rice or not. Serve it for breakfast or a tidbit.

6. Hot sandwiches Meatball subs, barbecued cheddar, messy joes, and sliders are problems with regards to warming. Assuming that you get the temperature and surface of the bread perfectly, the filling will be cold. Assuming that the filling is at ideal temperature, the bread has likely crumbled into something nobody would need to eat.

Isolating the filling from the bun or bread implies that you can warm each part to get it spot on, yet that can in some cases require more exertion than it's worth. Meltz Outrageous, an Idaho-based barbecued cheddar shop, says its sandwiches are ideal to eat two minutes after they fall off the barbecue, however offers wise counsel for the people who need to warm them and don't have any desire to do any taking apart. Put your sandwich on aluminum foil in a preheated broiler at 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare for 10 minutes. Flip it over and prepare for an additional 10 minutes. This is the most ideal choice for a virus sandwich from the refrigerator.

On the off chance that your sandwich just chilled off a lot returning, warm it up a piece in a non-stick skillet on the burner — still in its foil wrapping. Five minutes on each side ought to get it to the ideal temperature to appreciate.

7. Mexican In the event that you're gone to Taco Ringer, Taco John's, or Chipotle, you'll presumably return with a sack overflowing with tacos, burritos, and quesadillas. Assuming you know it's a lot to eat, center around scarfing down the pieces of your request that are more enthusiastically to warm, says Mattito's, a Tex-Mex café in Dallas. That incorporates generally seared or crunchy dishes like flautas, hard-shell tacos, and tostadas.

The broiler is the most effective way to warm most Mexican food — utilizing the microwave will probably bring about an unappetizing, squashed up wreck. While warming in the stove, use foil to hold tortillas back from drying out something over the top. In the event that you're as of now surrendered to the way that your request has lost its delectableness, you can constantly slash everything up, blend it in with eggs, and change it into a morning meal scramble. The Seattle Times proposes heating up quesadillas on the oven for two or three minutes on each side since they get spongy in the microwave and dry out in the broiler.

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#i thought it might be like the hannibal series which starts to flounder a little before taking a nose dive with the last one

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for the last time, it’s not a lost scorese movie — it’s a lost matteo movie

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The proper business of the eighteenth-century epistolary novelist is to make us love the good and hate the wicked by revealing the minds and hearts of both through the transparent medium of their letters. Richardson took no great trouble with this because for him the distinction between good and evil was simple, and, he supposed, self-evident. Laclos seems to have been of another turn of mind.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Moral 'Usefulness' by William Mead

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is it just me or does Gercourt and his convent obsession seem reminiscent of Arnolphe from Moliere’s The School for Wives?

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Interesting, the idea of Dangerous Liaisons being a critique of aristocratic society is a modern interpretation. I would argue that it’s contemporaneous social commentary is more about the double standard, but I’m only halfway through... (Source)

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My #1 post of 2022

i just realized the six degrees of separation between dracula and dangerous liaisons is like one because keanu reeves is in both movies!

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NAcyl CoA dehydrogenase, Their Isoforms as well as Jobs inside Chemistry and biology, Condition as well as Cancer

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hello hello hello, how are we doing? the first month of the new year has come to a scarily fast close – i hope it treated you well! my january was....well, it had its ups and downs for sure. i ended up reading way more fics than i had expected i would have time to. incidentally, i've also been sleeping much later these days 😂 so, may i humbly present my johnlock fic history for january! in which i shamelessly stalked authors' ao3 profiles, gorged myself on omegaverse fics and feverishly read an insane number of short and mid length fics. i've also decided to feature two spotlight recs this month instead of the intended one, because try as i might, i couldn't pick just one and, really, there's no need to tbh. enjoy!

key: 🐺 A/B/O • 🎆 new years themed • 🎄 christmas themed • blue highlight – reread

spotlight recs:

✰ Winning the Goat by @arwamachine (17k, E)

The life that Sherlock and John have together is rather unusual. Sometimes they lounge about the flat with their daughter. Sometimes they flee for their lives from a band of organ-harvesting criminals. Sometimes they shag. Sometimes Sherlock insists upon arguing with John about the Monty Hall problem for weeks on end. Somehow, they love each other. Somehow, it all works.

this! fic! it genuinely has everything. domestics, parentlock, hurt/comfort, bickering johnlock, the thrill of the chase, fluff, smut – it truly runs the gamut, and does so beautifully. Winning the Goat had me smiling and laughing throughout the whole thing. amidst the humour, arwa has managed to weave a more serious mood effortlessly, without ever deviating from the motif of the monty hall problem. the funny moments will have you laughing helplessly, the tender moments will have you getting all sappy, the smut will leave you hot and bothered, and you will definitely, definitely, get overly invested in the monty hall problem. (john is right and you can fight me on that)

✰ Solstice by @calaisreno (6k, teen)

It feels like the onset of winter, so gradual that you wake up one day and see frost decorating the windows and wonder when it suddenly became so cold...He lost John slowly, without either of them deciding that’s what would happen. The way to come back together must be so gradual that it’s almost imperceptible.

this is just the sweetest, slightly achy-in-a-good-way story of john and sherlock drifting apart before coming together again, as they always do. what i love about this fic is that it talks about an experience painful in all its mundane universality. but it also shows you that some bonds just cannot be broken. sherlock in this is lovely, patient and determined in his vulnerability.

bite sized (5k and less)

1. New Year, New Beginnings by DaisyFairy (810, teen) 🎆

New Year at a crime scene and John makes a decision.

2. It's Sentimental, I Know by @chriscalledmesweetie (469, G)🎆

This New Year’s Eve, Sherlock has only one resolution — to kiss John at midnight.

3. waiting (for the rising sun) by @simplyclockwork (2k, M)

No one has looked at you like that in a long time. Possibly not ever. But he looks at you, he lays your life out before you, and he doesn’t stop there.

4. a pleasant surprise by @simplyclockwork (3k, M)

Sherlock's first birthday after his return from the grave.

5. Six Degrees of Separation by testosterone_tea (5k, E)

Sherlock sees John in a coffee shop and decides that he's going to meet him as an experiment. The universe seems to conspire against him, making a mess of the experiment and Sherlock's emotions. But is it the universe intervening, or is Sherlock just being an idiot about this?

6. The Subversive Potential of Gender Transgression, Or: Goddamnit, Sherlock, Stop Drugging My Drinks by trashyfiction (5k, E) 🐺

For a case, Sherlock needs to see if he can make a drug that can override heat suppressants and make an omega go into heat immediately. He plans to test it on himself but things rarely go according to plan at Baker Street.

7. Five Vials of Blood by MythAnd (5k, M)

It starts the night that John brings him five vials of blood.

Or, in which Sherlock struggles to understand the intricacies of his relationship with John.

8. Under the Mistletoe by testosterone_tea (5k, E)

Mistletoe is a parasite, and Sherlock really wishes everyone would stop romanticizing it. What could possibly happen to change his mind?

9. Paper Hearts by testosterone_tea (4k, teen)

Sherlock is the loner kid that has no friends, and is certain that his interest in popular rugby player John Watson is unrequited. One day, he starts getting hearts in his locker from a mysterious admirer and has to decide whether or not he wants to find out who fancies him.

10. Molecular by scrub456 (1k, G)

"Hmmnh." John stretches, long and slow. That deep molecular feeling pulls at him. "Now there's a genius idea."

"Your tea will get cold," Sherlock whispers, barely restrained.

"You'll make more later."

11. Untold Stories by @discordantwords (4k, G)

John doesn't want to write up their latest case. Sherlock can't seem to let it go.

12. The Fly-Half in Silks by DemonicSymphony (4k, E) 🐺 {part 1 of the Hashfield Hall series}

Sherlock Holmes is a teacher at a prestigious boarding school when omega John Watson comes to teach part time and coach rugby. Predictably, sparks fly.

13. The Incident and First Deletion by DemonicSymphony (1k, G) 🐺 {part 2 of the Hashfield Hall series}

Set before The Fly-Half in Silks... what did happen that week John came home to work on a project with Mycroft?

Told from Sherlock's point of view in a journal with interjections from a meddling Mycroft.

14. Prick by Anyawen (1k, G) {part 1 of the Inked series}

John has an appointment. Sherlock wants to avoid Mummy and musical theatre. He tags along.

15. semiotics by Anyawen (3k, G) {part 2 of the Inked series}

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the tattoo on Sherlock's back is a novel. Luckily, it's in a language John can read.

16. On the Subject of the Haggis by mydwynter (3k, teen)

"Some hae meat and cannot eat, blah blah. You know. It's the 25th. Isn't that what your family does?"

John's brain slipped repeatedly as it tried to turn over this concept. "You're planning a Burns Night?"

"Have planned, John. And already executed. Obviously." Sherlock gestured at the display in the kitchen.

It began a long and sonsie night.

17. the things that comfort us by @hudders-and-hiddles (3k, teen)

Sherlock takes one of John's jumpers with him when he leaves to dismantle Moriarty's network. One day, John notices it's missing

18. On a Sunday Morning by Sd_Ryan (3k, G)

"John in his natural habitat was a subject most diverting, so for a long while the detective stayed hunched in his chair, spidery limbs tucked up and in, fingers steepled and pressed to lips, eyes unapologetically focused on the enigma, the clash of opposites, that was John Watson. He trailed top to bottom of that stout package, then bottom to top—gathering and sorting data."

Sherlock has a little problem. He can't stop obsessing about John Watson.

short fics (5k-15k)

19. More Than Words Can Say by @loveismyrevolution (13k, teen) 🎄

The Christmas season has found its way into 221B Baker Street. And the boys are talking. Mostly between the words though. Sometimes it's more important to listen to the words that aren't said.

20. the cherry on top by @simplyclockwork (7k, E) 🐺

John's never shown any interest in his Alpha flatmate, despite Sherlock's pining. When a case requires a different approach than usual, Sherlock finds himself struggling to keep his feelings to himself.

21. Never Trust to General Impressions by @thetimemoves (9k, teen)

John might not be a master of deduction, but as he likes to remind Sherlock on the regular, he’s no idiot either. There is what the world thinks of Sherlock, and then there is what John really knows.

Well, most of the time. There's always something.

Or, five things John Watson knows for sure about Sherlock Holmes and one thing he completely misses.

22. The Liquid Measure of Your Steps by Mazarin221b (8k, E) 🐺

The murder of a young alpha dancer at a posh omega club gives John and Sherlock a peek into the shadier side of the entertainment industry, where young, unsuppressed alphas are left as vulnerable targets to any omega intent on using their own bond compulsion against them.

23. Gordian by fresne (15k, E) 🐺

On any given day, Sherlock might come out of the bathroom smelling like an Alpha on the hunt (Alpha #8) or an Omega in heat (Omega #9), a Beta brooding (Beta #3), or like no gender at all. The last one was his actual scent, which wasn't so much scentless as confusing. At least in an adult.

If Sherlock and John were the sort of people to read Mills and Boon novels, they could have said that what occurred was because destiny intervened and set two destined lovers in their one true pairings' path.

It was the lasagna.

24. Praise Me by testosterone_tea (11k, E)

In which Sherlock has an interesting physical reaction to compliments and John discovers it.

25. Invite Me Over by testosterone_tea (8k, E)

Sherlock lives in a crappy, run-down flat during his grad studies in chemistry when an attractive med student moves in next door. Unilock.

26. Ugly Duckling by testosterone_tea (6k, E)

Sherlock has spent his life thinking that he's ugly, and it really wouldn't bother him except for two things: a) he wants John to like him, and b) he finds himself on a case involving underwear modeling. But apparently body positivity comes with a bloody side dish of serial killing, and John in nothing but pants is very distracting. What's an ugly duckling to do?

27. a slice of sentiment by @watsonshoneybee (9k, G)

Sherlock Holmes has a secret. A hot, gooey, greasy, extra cheese and pepperoni secret.

And he’s waiting for the person—the right person, the only person, the capital-O One person—to share it with.

28. Again by @discordantwords (9k, M) 🎄

It never seemed like the right time. And then time ran out.

notes: don't let the summary scare you! read the tags ;)

29. Missing the (Fixed) Point by @discordantwords (8k, teen)

John doesn't know Sherlock. Sherlock doesn't know John. The universe is not so easily dissuaded.

Or, five times Sherlock interrupted John's plans, and one time John interrupted his.

30. Forever Turning Corners by @discordantwords (9k, M)

Exactly one year and four days after Sherlock Holmes flung himself from the top of Barts Hospital, John Watson buys himself a bottle of good scotch and a train ticket. The train ticket is an impulse, the scotch is not.

31. Retrace by @discordantwords (7k, M)

John nearly takes a bullet. Then he takes a walk.

32. Pro Bono by PrettyArbitrary (9k, E) 🐺

Sherlock's a bit of a dick about the omega thing, but then he's a bit of a dick about everything. Even so, John doesn't venture where he knows he's not wanted.

(100% non-problematically consensual omegaverse. Because world-building is cool. A bit of relationship angst got in there, though.)

33. Where You Hang Your Heart by suitesamba (13k, M)

Part 1 - Sherlock (The Walking Man)

Part 2 - John (The Waiting Game)

When it was all over, when the east wind had blown through and they’d picked themselves off the pavement, Sherlock said enough.

When it was all over, when Mary was dead and Rosie didn’t have enough family left for John to risk even an adrenaline high, John watched Sherlock go.

Eighteen years later, the real journey begins.

34. This Time by @bertytravelsfar (12k, teen)

After five months of silence, John asks Sherlock to meet him for a coffee. Five months of learning to live completely without John has been harder than he could have imagined but the lure of seeing his friend once more is too much to pass up.

35. In a Changing Age by allonsys_girl (15k, E)

Sherlock wakes up in the 19th century, with no idea how he got there.

36. Lozenges by Zingiber (9k, M) {part 1 of the Five and One series}

Sherlock and John can both be careless with their health. Five times John tended to an ill Sherlock, and one time Sherlock tended to John.

37. Linens (from the bottom drawer) by Zingiber (15k, M) {part 2 of the Five and One series}

Sequel to Lozenges. Five times Sherlock calls John his husband and one time John calls Sherlock his.

38. Blind Marriage by inspiration_assaulted (7k, teen) {part 1 of the Blind series}

Lt John Watson, 25, will do just about anything to stay in the Army, even if it means marrying a man he's never met. It's only for two years, and he'll probably be in Afghanistan the whole time. How much can his life really change?

Sherlock Holmes, 21, is just entering rehab, at his mother's dying request. He can't receive the money she left him, the money he needs to live, unless he gets married. He signs the papers to shut Mycroft up. Besides, it's only for two years, and his husband is on a different continent. How much can his life really change?

39. Blind Love by inspiration_assaulted (10k, teen) {part 2 of the Blind series)

Sequel to Blind Marriage.

After he returns to England, John and Sherlock struggle into life as a married couple.

40. Close Your Eyes by inspiration_assaulted (1k, G) {part 3 of the Blind series}

After they return from Baskerville, John is angry and Sherlock is sorry. He's very sorry indeed, and he plans to prove it to his husband.

One-shot

41. Oh How the Ghost of You Clings by @arwamachine (13k, teen)

Sherlock has been dead for over a year, and John fully intends to spend January 29th—the anniversary of the day he and Sherlock met—laying low and trying not to cry. The universe, it would appear, has a somewhat different plan for John. As a mounting series of consequences sends John across the city to all the spots he and Sherlock haunted that first day they knew each other, John begins to suspect that the universe is not being very lazy at all.

mid length (16k-50k)

42. every precious failure and amateur cartography by kenopsia (indie) (22k, M) 🐺

John is not a fan of alphas. His beta flatmate, Sherlock is also not a fan of alphas. 221b is a no-knots-allowed club.

43. The Six Steps of Courtship by emptycel (28k, E) 🐺

Sherlock doesn't hold any love for his omega status. However, that doesn't stop him from going undercover and joining on online dating site to try and find the person responsible for a string of vicious omega homicides.

It should have been easy, open and shut.

He just didn't expect to meet an alpha named John Watson.

And enter the six steps of courtship.

44. The Pretence of an Unacknowledged Truth by stickleworting (28k, E) 🐺

He’s decided to just be himself, cliché as it sounds. The lie about being Sherlock’s mate will be difficult enough to keep up, he’s not going to think up more of a charade regarding himself on top of that.

If he uses the wrong fork at dinner, fine. If someone calls him on it, he’ll just stab them with it. Job done.

45. Relative Incandescence by orphan_account (35k, E) 🐺

Two musical notes: Every parrot and every construction worker knows them. Shrill and salacious, so Sherlock will remember: You are on display. It’s supposed to be a compliment. Supposed to make him feel good, that they have laboured to remind him.

It makes him feel like a package of meat, set down into the cooler, raw and waiting to eaten.

46. tomorrow will dawn the same as today by @hudders-and-hiddles (17k, E, ch: 3/?)

Sherlock wakes up on a grey London morning, alone. Tomorrow he'll do the same. Whatever he does, wherever he goes, however his night might end, tomorrow he'll do the same.

note: technically this is incomplete, but it felt complete to me. not really a cliffhanger ending

47. Treading Water by @discordantwords (21k, teen)

It is not working. Whatever John was hoping to accomplish over these past six months, whatever he was hoping to prove by selling the little house he'd shared with Mary and returning to build a home out of the rubble of Baker Street has not come to pass. He is a welcome presence, but he is miserable.

As their personal and professional relationship slowly unravels under an intangible strain, a case forces Sherlock and John to spend the night inside the London Aquarium.

48. The Dead Detective by @discordantwords (37k, M)

John Watson has spent the last three years of his life simply going through the motions. A chance encounter with a man claiming to be a stranded spy changes everything.

long fics (50k and above)

49. The Measure of a Gentleman by i_ship_an_armada (67k, E)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a partner.

Less universally acknowledged is that a single man in possession of very little in the way of fortune may be in want of a partner as well, but John Watson had little time or energy to devote to his own wants or needs...

Enter one Mr Holmes...

50. To Stand Before the Storm by @arwamachine (132k, E)

Somebody has been killing sheep on an uninhabited island just off the western coast of Ireland, and Sherlock—of course—can’t resist the call to investigate. As a soon-to-be-divorced John and a recently-not-dead Sherlock unravel the mystery of the murdered sheep, they find that they may be forced to confront unspoken sentiments that have lingered between the two them for some time—that is, if they don’t fall victim to the dangers of the island first.

51. Electric Pink Hand Grenade by BeautifulFiction (67k, E)

"If Sherlock's brain is a hard drive, then these attacks are an electro-magnetic pulse." Sherlock Holmes does not do anything by half, not even a migraine. It falls to John to witness one of the greatest minds he has ever known tear itself apart, and he must do his best to help Sherlock pick up the pieces.

wips

52. noise complaint by @simplyclockwork (64k, E, ch: 22/25)

One loud upstairs neighbour and three days of non-stop party music lead Sherlock to an unexpected meeting.

53. after hours by @simplyclockwork (14k, E, ch: 5/6)

After meeting Sherlock Holmes as a patient, Doctor John Watson can't get the intelligent, attractive consulting detective with the limp off his mind. He is determined not to overstep professional boundaries until an after hours encounter with the man himself has John seeing things in a different light.

collections

Tumblr Inspired/Prompted Sherlock Fics- Part One by @simplyclockwork

Tumblr Inspired/Prompted Sherlock Fics- Part Two by @simplyclockwork

#whew formatting this was a bitch #but i love how it looks hehe #also so. many. fics #yes i know i have a problem don't @ me #johnlock #bbc sherlock #johnlock fic #johnlockficrecs #fic recs #january 2022

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sans IS gaster (OR the sans theory masterpost pt. 2)

Part 1 || ❤️ || Part 3

(drawn by me, color by @magenteel)

Previously, we discussed: Sans and his hand in the destruction of a world, his connection to Ice-E and Deltarune, and how he relates to Gaster. We’re going to continue the thread we left off on.

Section III - Gaster (Cont.)

Snails are mentioned too many times throughout Undertale for them to not be of any significance. As it turns out, they are pretty important in unraveling the mystery behind Gaster and Sans.

When you enter the area with Napstablook’s snail farm, you’ll notice that Sans’s theme is playing despite him not making an appearance.

In one of Papyrus’s phone calls, he mentions that Sans recently bought snail-shaped pasta and says “He’ll probably fill them with hotdogs and slime.” Toriel also owns a book called “72 User for Snails”. Track 72 in the Undertale OST is “Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans”. That’s multiple times that Sans is likened to snails.

Snails belong under the taxonomic class Gastropoda. Gasterpods.

These long pauses between words and phrases are not unlike how Gaster speaks.

Here is Gaster speaking with us in the opening sequence of Deltarune. And...

Now. Let’s move on.

(More under the cut.)

Mus_smile is the track that plays in room_gaster. This is my personal opinion, but the character that is the most strongly associated with smiles is Sans.

And Sans is certainly intelligent enough to be the prime suspect for being Gaster. The proper name for his namesake is Comic Sans Microsoft, or Comic Sans MS. MS can also be used as a suffix for the name of a person who has a degree in a Master of Science.

Sans also owns quantum physics books. The subject of Gaster’s scientific research is revealed in Entry #17: “photon readings negative”. Photons are described as a "quantum" of electromagnetic energy, and are of course within the realm of study under quantum physics.

Gaster, like Sans, is brilliant yet slow-working. Slower than Alphys, who is repeatedly noted to have nothing to show yet as the royal scientist in the eyes of the people and is shown to slack off constantly.

Gaster is implied to have perished, and I suppose he did, in a way, if these speculations do end up being correct. However, there’s something more to this statement. Ghosts are sort of in the realm of being not-alive, and Sans and Napstablook have a surprising level of comparability.

They both:

Get likened to “garbage”

Have connections to snails (Napstablook runs the snail farm)

Speak completely in lower case

Pretend to sleep and say “Z’s” out loud

Have black “sclera”

And the black sclera is also a topic of its own; it’s equated with the status of being brought back to life. Being “determined”. (See: Asriel and Undyne)

Undyne is especially suspect due to the strange right-eye-phenomenon she has in common with Sans, with spears shooting out of hers. Spears that are actually colored light blue, not unlike Sans’s eye.

To recap:

Sans and Gaster are heavily involved in Deltarune

They have been displaced from time and space

They have connections to snails

They are both doctors with knowledge in quantum physics

They both “fell” into the abyss

They both talk similarly

They are both slow

They are both characterized by their smile

They are both some degree of dead

Sans is Gaster or a significant piece of him. Sans has Gaster Blasters because they belong to him. If all prior conjecture proves true, he is and will be responsible for the destruction of a world or THE world within Deltarune. After all, the Latin definitions of “gaster” and “sans” are to destroy and to be without, respectively.

That brings us to the next subject: why is Sans Sans? More specifically, why is that his name? Why even change his name?

Below is the Japanese version of the fun event with Sans’s phone call. It features completely different dialogue from its English counterpart.

Am I Licca-chan? (Select No) Then from now on call me Sans. I need to check every once in a while. I won’t know when my name has changed.

“Licca-chan” is a well-known Barbie-esque dress-up doll in Japan, so popular to the point where it is even used as a synonym for other dolls from different companies. Perhaps it implies that Sans is adaptable due to Licca-chan’s nature as a doll and how she is in a constant state of change to reflect the times. It also seems to be a pun on “liquor” because Sans was talking about beer in the English version. I tried to scour the Japanese fandom for clues, but they also seemed stumped. If anyone has any ideas on what this could mean, please let me know!

Regardless, “Sans” doesn’t seem to be his actual name. Perhaps his true name was Gaster...?

Additionally, If the player changes the name of the fallen child via going into the code, this message appears in the stats menu. The vernacular is very Sans-like, with his frequent use of question tags at the end of his sentences (I counted 14 huh’s from Sans).

Finally, let’s talk about the number six. We know that it’s Gaster’s number--All of the explicitly Gaster-related fun events trigger for fun values in the sixties, Gaster’s stats are all comprised of 6′s, Gaster’s “typer-value” is 666--you get the idea.

The concept art Toby drew for the Alarm Clock’s character screen features what is presumably Sans and the number six.

“The Choice”--the track that plays during Sans’s judgements--is “Undertale” slowed down by 666%.

Section IV - Angels and Demons (The “Why”)

In modern day culture, 666 is closely associated with the devil. The Book of Revelation (13:17-18) asserts that 666 is “the number of a man” (this is important, and we’ll come back to it later) and is “the number of the Beast”. The Beast is mentioned as “coming out of the abyss”.

Sounds a lot like someone else we know, doesn’t it? And how fitting for Sans, the one who judges our sins and demands us “to burn in hell”.

But if we go further, the Beast of Revelation is described to have seven heads representing seven kings. The beast itself is an eighth king who is of the seven and "was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition."

Chara is an eighth of the seven fallen children.

There’s something Chara, Sans, and Gaster all share, and it’s their association with demons.

Here is an excerpt from the Cutting Room Floor:

Among the four strings in version 1.0, the last one, designated by variable “demond”, stands out for two reasons.

The letter “d” is separate from the other letters denoting the demon variables--the rest, “x”, “y”, and “z” are in sequential alphabet order.

The speech pattern of the last string is different from the others. It has that signature question tag at the end of the sentence that a certain character is known for.

In version 1.001, the strings clearly reflect Chara’s speech pattern. This time, all the variables are in sequential order from “a” to “d”.

Pieces of dialogue at the near-end of a genocide route from Chara and Sans. Recall that Chara is using the same “Now” from earlier with Gaster and Sans.

Chara makes a reference to Banana Yoshimoto's book “Kitchen”. Take note of the page number.

Chara is also linked to the number nine. It’s the highest achievable stat in-game. It’s the stat of the locket and real knife. It’s how much damage Chara deals. It’s also the number six flipped upside down.

The connections are undeniable.

And yet, it goes further. Let’s take a look at how Christmas comes in to play.

In Deltarune, there are a few references to it, the most foremost probably being the importance of Noelle Holiday as a character. We also get Lancer’s laugh and the joke with “Krismas”.

Back to Undertale, there is significant Christmas iconography represented by “Gyfmas” and Gyftrot (bearing a strong resemblance to Photoshop Flowey, the DT Extractor, and Gaster Blasters).

What I’d like to focus on is Santa. Papyrus describes him as “a chubby, smiling man who loves to surprise people.” From the thank you note addressed to Santa we find in Sans’s room, we can assume that Sans is a Santa, at least to Papyrus. It’s pretty fitting, since Sans can be described as someone who “knows if [we’ve] been bad or good”. Maybe he can even tell if we’re sleeping or awake with how the Dark World appears to be linked with sleep and dreams (please read my theory on Sans being a Darkner for more on this).

So we can reasonably conclude that Sans presents himself as a friendly, child-oriented figure, in-line with the nature of Comic Sans, a font for children, and Ice-E, a mascot of a company marketed towards children.

…

Santa is an anagram of Satan.

…

To recap: Gaster’s association with the number 666 marks him as a “demon”. Chara and Sans are also called demons and similarly have connections to the number 6. This is more evidence that Gaster and Sans is or used to be the same people, and Chara has some form of correspondence with them.

I failed to mention before that there is actually a second Beast of Revelation “from the Earth” with "two horns like a lamb”. From the “earth” like Flowey, with horns like Asriel.

Asriel is most likely the “Angel” depicted in the prophecy within the scope of Undertale; he’s named similarly to Azrael, an angel of death, and one of his attacks is literally called “Angel of Death”. He also bears a striking resemblance to the Deltarune in his God of Hyperdeath form.

Surprise, surprise, he and Sans also share parallels.

Let’s start with their introductions. “Flowey the flower”. “Sans the skeleton”. It’s a similarly alliterative greeting and they’re both using fake names.

Mirrored dialogue yet again...

…and similar meta-commentary.

These three characters--Sans/Gaster, Chara, and Flowey/Asriel--they have all fallen. Gaster fell into his creation. Chara fell into the Underground. Asriel had “fallen down”. (Sans and Papyrus are also the only sibling pair other than Chara and Asriel. I won’t talk about Papyrus in this part though because this thing is shaping up to be too long already.)

What does this mean for Sans? I have a personal theory.

Above the entryway of the Judgement Hall, there is a reversed Deltarune. The triangles are inverted and the wings are more bat-like. In the room where only Sans appears, the same room that plays a version of “Undertale” slowed down 666%.

I think Sans is a candidate for the Angel prophesized to destroy the world in Deltarune. I think he is Sans Serif, a seraph. He fell into his experiment and became a “fallen” angel, a demon.

The Angel’s Heaven mentioned alongside, on the other hand... Heaven can also be used to refer to God. Dog is an anagram of God.

Sans has many, many connections with dogs, especially one Annoying Dog. More on this next time.

Part 1 || ❤️ || Part 3

#undertale #deltarune #undertale theory #deltarune theory #sans #gaster #cellytheory

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mimzy-writing-online · 4 years

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Writing A Blind/Visually Impaired Character: Canes, Guide Dogs, O&M

Wow, back in June I decided to take a few months break from blogging to recharge and focus on my mental health. About a month ago I began writing this specific post, slowly and in stages because of how demanding, detailed, and long it is.

I’m not sure when I planned to come back. I have about 200 posts with tags and image description in my drafts folder, waiting to be queued, but I wanted to finish this guide before I fully came back.

Come back with a bang, right?

But this blog, and specifically, my Writing a Blind or Visually Impaired Character guide, has gotten so much traffic and support that I felt incredibly motivated to come back now.

So I finished the guide, and now here it is. It’s been a year+ in the making. Since the very beginning of this writing advice series about writing blind characters, I’ve promised to write a guide specifically about canes, guide dogs, O&M, and other accessibility measures the blind community relies on.

In fact, if you look at my master post for this guide (now pinned at the first post on my blog) you’ll find that it was reserved as Part Four, even as other guides and additions were added over the last year.

In this post I’ll be explaining

What Orientation and Mobility (O&M) is

How one learns O&M

About canes, from different types of canes and their parts, as well as how to use a cane.

I will be explaining the sensory experiences of using a cane and how to describe it in narrative.

I will include small mannerisms long-time cane uses might develop.

At the very end will be a section on guide dogs, but this will be limited to research because I have no personal experience with guide dogs, being a cane user.

Disclaimer: I am an actual visually impaired person who has been using a cane for nearly three years and has been experiencing vision loss symptoms for a few years longer than that. This guide is based on both my experiences and my research. My experiences are not universal however because every blind person has a unique experience with their blindness

What Is Orientation & Mobility

Orientation and Mobility (O&M) is the specific skill of understanding and navigating the world safely and confidently with vision loss.

I’m going to quote Vision Aware’s specific definition [link]

"Orientation" refers to the ability to know where you are and where you want to go, whether you're moving from one room to another or walking downtown for a shopping trip.

"Mobility" refers to the ability to move safely, efficiently, and effectively from one place to another, such as being able to walk without tripping or falling on steps or elevation changes, crossing streets, and using public transportation

O&M can involve :

-learning how to use a cane, as well as what cane works best for you

-safely navigating obstacles with your cane, including stairs, ramps, elevators, uneven or curved sidewalks, through crowds, around furniture

-learning safe strategies for crossing the street

-planning routes to new or recurring locations

-using technology enroute, including GPS and apps like Uber and Lyft

-safely accessing public transportation

-how to ask for help when needed

-working with human sighted guides

A Note on the Blind Community and Their Relationship with Canes

The Perkins School for the Blind estimates that only 2-8% of the blind community rely on canes for navigation. The rest rely on remaining vision, guide dogs, and sighted guides. Only about 2% of the blind community relies on guide dogs however, and to get a guide dog in the first place, a person must go through O&M classes and use a cane for six months before they can sign up for a guide dog.

What this means is that 90% of the blind community don’t use a cane.

I didn’t know this fact until I begun research for this guide, and that number astounds me.

Truth be told, while I have navigated my life without a cane before, I can’t imagine going back to the way it was before I got it. Even if I only need my cane some of the time, I can’t bear to not use it in the situations I need it. Having a cane made my life a lot easier, a lot safer.

I don’t know what to attribute this number to.

I might attribute it to the concepts of invisible vs. visible disability, internalized ableism, or the feeling of ‘not being blind enough’ for a cane, as well as accessibility to the blind community and knowledge, and access to buying a cane in the first place. I could write a thing about it, but if I try it’s gonna be its own post.

Onward~

How Do You Learn O&M? How Will My Character Learn?

You will have to find an Orientation and Mobility instructor and have them personally teach you O&M skills.

The O&M Instructor is a sighted adult who has gone to school for a bachelor’s degree and gone through O&M training themselves while blindfolded, usually fulfilling a certain requirement of hours (one program required 400 hours of O&M practice blindfolded before you could become certified), and apply for certification to teach O&M.

(Or, as is the process to become an instructor in the United States, where I am from. Becoming an instructor would vary in other countries, I’m sure)

To find an O&M instructor, you would reach out to your local school or foundation for the blind. Finding your nearest school for the blind could be done through…

Google search

Your Ophthalmologist (eye doctor) referring you to a school for the blind

A Social Service Worker reaching out to you and helping you contact the school

Possibly your school (as in grade/primary school, high school, university) reaching out to the nearest school for the blind on your behalf.

Unfortunately, there is not an abundance of schools and foundations, so your nearest might still be a far travel distance. My local school is a 45 minute drive away. For some it might a few hours away.

This is, again, a U.S. experience, because our land mass is spaced out, and something like a six hour drive feels like nothing to most people (although is highly impractical and very difficult to a blind person who cannot drive themselves), but in other countries a six hour drive would mean crossing several borders, and other countries have different social programs.

There is not a full and complete database of every available school for the blind either, no one website to find every possible option. For example, the school I went to wasn’t listed in most of the website resources I found, even though it has seven branches and locations.

This is more a complaint at the real life struggle to find disabled services, that there are few comprehensive resources out there. If you ask me, it should be made significantly easier to find and access your local blind communities. Accessibility and disabled services should be easily available everywhere.

If your story is based in a real world location, googling ‘school for the blind (city/county/country)’ should suffice in finding the one most local to your setting.

What might a school for the blind provide for your character?

Well, on top of helping your character connect to an O&M instructor, a school for the blind might provide other rehabilitation classes and access to additional resources.

Those rehabilitation classes could include lessons on:

-Reading/Writing Braille & using brailling machines

-Technology classes for screen readers, magnifiers, etc on your computer and smart phone.

My local school has separate classes specific to Andriod, iOS, JAWS, Zoomtext Fusion

-Independent Living skills (cooking, cleaning, organizing, planning how to get groceries and medications)

-Self Improvement (dancing, art, music, self defense. These were classes my school taught)

The additional resources form these schools might include-

Referrals to counselors for coping with vision loss

Access to their audio-book and braille library

Access to magnifier devices, brailler machines (think of a typewriter for writing braille)

Some schools also offer grade-school or high-school education, meaning blind children/teens learn there instead of a mainstream school.

Some schools have lodgings for clients to stay at while going through rehabilitation, especially if the vision loss is sudden and severe. They live on-campus and take part in classes. Other schools only have day classes offered and you need to find transportation for every visit. Many schools might have a rehabilitation specialist or O&M instructor visit you in your home.

My local school did the last two. They had on site classes, but the school is a 45 minute drive from me, so I only visited a few times. They were able to send an O&M instructor to me.

On Wednesdays at 3 pm she would drive to my house and give me lessons on using my cane. Those included her driving me to different locations to practice certain skills (like using stairs and escalators at the mall, or crossing a moderately busy intersection, or visiting a bus station to practice boarding a bus safely and communication with a bus driver where my stop was).

She also brought multiple different types of canes for new students to try out and determine which felt best for them.

The Many Types of Canes

Long Canes are used to sweep the immediate area in front of the cane user as they’re walking. This is the cane type that the general public is most familiar with seeing. There are several sub-types of long canes. They can also be called white canes or probing canes.

[Image Description: Man in business clothes traveling on the side walk with a white and red cane. End Image Description]

White cane can be a misnomer for two reasons: One, the concept of the standard cane for the blind can look different in different countries. In America, the standard is white with a red tip. In some countries the standard is an all-white cane. In some countries an all white cane might mean the user is blind while a white cane with a red tip means the user is deaf-blind.

Two, some companies like Ambutech allow customers to customize their cane colors and tips. Example: Molly Burke’s hot pink cane. My white cane with a purple tip. An all black or all sky blue or all red or all purple cane. A black cane with a blue or purple tip. Ambutech also allows customers to request neon-colored reflective tape to make their canes more visible at night.

Probing cane is not a term I’ve personally heard before, but it is a term Vision Aware uses on their website.

There are three main types of long canes:

Non-folding Canes: a cane that has no sections, cannot be folded or collapsed.

[Image Description: stock photo of man in business suit with a non-folding all white cane. End Image Description]

Folding Canes: The cane has 3-6 sections depending on its height. The taller the cane, the more sections it has. The sections are separate pieces that are made to snap together and are held together by a strong elastic rope inside the sections.

[Image Description: a folding cane with four sections, white with a red tip, and a rolling marshmallow tip. End Image Description]

Telescopic Canes: in which the sections slide into each other, similar to a telescope/spyglass, rather than pulling apart and folding. The handle is the widest section, and the tip section is the thinnest.

[Image Description: Three stacked images of a blue telescopic cane. First is of the cane completely collapsed. Second is of the sections partially sliding out. Third is the cane sections completely out and locked.]

Beyond that is also the Identification Cane. The function of this cane is to visibly identify the user as blind. It’s not used for O&M the way long canes are, there is no sweeping out the next two steps. It can be used as a support cane, however.

It’s appeals most to the elderly who not only make up a huge percentage of the blind community, but might also benefit most from having both a support cane and an identifier for their blindness, in case they need assistance.

[Image Description: identification cane with curved handle. All white with red tip. End Image Description]

A note: From what I’ve heard in the blind community, some people prefer solid/non-folding canes over folding or telescopic canes. The reason for this is that solid canes transfer vibration better than folding or telescopic canes. It’s said that the more sections a cane has, the less precise the vibrations are.

Some cane users train themselves to understand the vibrations of the surfaces their canes are touching. It tells them what kind of surface they’re on (wood vs. marble vs. concrete), if there are nearby objects to their cane. While I rely somewhat on cane vibrations to tell me what surface I’m walking on (more on that later), it is beyond my current O&M abilities to use cane vibrations to sense nearby walls or objects.

Cane vibrations are just an additional information-sense to add to the others in use, and extra bit of data input.

Parts of the Cane: Materials, Handle, Tips, Sections, Elastic Band

Material

The three most common types of materials used to make canes are aluminum, carbon-fiber, and fiberglass. Each material has some drawbacks and benefits.

The ideal cane is lightweight and durable. It should be strong enough to withstand hitting something solid without bending or splintering.

Aluminum is strong and durable, but heavy. If it’s damage, it’s more likely to bend than break entirely. A bend can be straightened out, but it takes considerable strength.

Carbon-fiber is lightweight and durable. It’s stronger than fiberglass, and it can bend out of shape rather than splintering.

Fiberglass is lightweight but a bit rigid. If it breaks, it splinters.

Handles and Elastic Bands

While some canes can have specialized grips (plastic, wood, corkboard) the most common handle material is a black rubber handle that is about ten inches long, give or take. In the previous photos you’ve seen, the canes have had black rubber handles.

Here is an example of a cane with a wood-mesh material used as the handle.

[Image Description: a four section white cane with a red tip and a orange wood mesh handle, with black elastic band attached. End Image Description]

The benefits of black rubber handles over others are that it’s easier to hold onto, especially if your palms are wet or sweaty, than a plastic or polished wood handle. It also wouldn’t show the indents or scratches from wear and tear daily use. I’m guessing that is cheaper to make on the manufacturing standpoint, and thus is conveniently the standard.

Pay attention to the black elastic band attached to the handle in the above photo. Notice how it has a tied off loop? That is so that when the cane is folded, that loop can be stretched over the folded sections to hold it together.

[Image Description: a four section folding cane folded up with the black band around them. End Image Description]

Additional benefits or functions of the elastic could be to use it as a wrist strap while using the cane, or hanging it up on a hook while not in use. I tend to have my cane folded up and tuck my wrist under the strap to hold it more securely while carrying it. Images of that ahead in my cane-isms section.

Cane Height

Ideal cane heights depend on the user. For most users, you want your cane height to be to your shoulder, give or take a few inches. You might need a longer cane if you are a fast walker with long strides, or a shorter cane if you prefer to hold your cane at a lower angle than is traditional.

What I mean when I talk about holding your cane at a certain angle is that the standard is to hold your cane handle in your dominant hand and position it in front of your belly button, moving it side to side with each step. Traditional grip methods are holding your hand palm side up with your cane in hand, or to hold the cane at the section joint closest to the handle with what is called the pencil grip, holding the cane like a fat pencil.

Depending on the height, a cane can have anywhere between three and six sections. Longer canes have more sections. The top section includes the handle, and the last section includes the stripe color (traditionally red, unless customized) and the tip.

The sections of the cane are generally slightly reflective, regardless of color. If you hold a cane up to the light you’ll see tiny specks of light reflected back, almost like very fine, tiny particle glitter paint. This detail is important in cane production because it makes the cane more visible at night, especially if something like car headlights reflect off it while someone is crossing.

Additional visibility at night can be added by wrapping stripes of reflective tape along the shaft.

Cane Tips

There are several different tip options for canes.

[Image Description: four different types of cane tips on a blue background with labels. From left to right: marshmallow tip, ball tip, pencil tip, glide tip.]

[Image Description: a rolling marshmallow tip with a blue background. End Image Description]

[Image Description: Bandu basher tip with a white background. For anyone not familiar with the name, the long, curved cane tip that looks like a hockey stick. End Image Description]

Some of these tips are better for the tap-tap method of cane travel, as in tapping the spots where you plan to step. They can also be used to feel out the shapes of objects, stairs, etc.

marshmallow tip, pencil tip,

They should not be scraped over surfaces, the tips will wear down much faster than they should. There are better tips for rolling over surface

Some tips are better for the rolling method of cane travel, which is the method I use. They aren’t great for tapping, but it can be done in a pinch.

rolling marshmallow tip, ball tip, glide tip

The Bandu Basher tip, the hockey stick shaped tip, is best for hovering an inch off the ground and lightly tapping objects. It could be tapped. It should not be scraped over the ground like a rolling tip. It hovers.

After enough use, the tips will wear down and need to be replaced. The part of the tip that has the most contact with the ground, usually the edge of the shape, gets scrapes, sands down, and eventually begins to look like it was shaved off while still having bits of plastic still gripped to it.

Never fear, cane tips can be removed and replaced when they wear out, replacing the whole cane is not necessary.

Some tips slip on or twist on. Others hook on. By hook on I mean that the elastic that keeps the cane sections together also has a loop at the tip end that a hook onto and stay held into place. Look back at the photo of the rolling marshmallow tip and you will see the hook that attaches to the black elastic.

Cane tips sell for about 5 - 10 U.S. dollars, plus shipping, so it’s advised to buy several back up tips with your cane. I replace my rolling marshmallow tips once every six to twelve months. I don’t know if that’s considered too much or too often. The last time I needed to replace mine was June 2019 (It’s July 2020 at the date of writing this, but I’ve hardly left my home for the last six months because of COVID-virus related quarantine/social distancing.)

Sensory Details/Describing What Using a Cane Feels Like

Every surface type feels and sounds different when tapping or rolling a cane over it. It’s this difference that tells us a lot about our environment.

It tells us when we stepped off the side walk onto the grass, when we’ve walked inside because the concrete changes to wood or carpet flooring. These little details become trail markers too, useful for places we anticipate traveling to a lot.

Example: A week before every semester in college, I would travel to each of the classrooms and learn necessary routes. I learned that certain paths had giant cracks in the sidewalk that would be distinct enough to use as a trail marker to where I was on a path, or that certain paths went from cement to gravel, or cement to brick.

Carpet: The sound is very soft, and if you’re rolling your cane across carpet it sounds like a quiet swish-swish-swish. Tapping sounds depend on how thick the carpet padding underneath is, the thicker the carpet the softer the sound. If there’s a lot of padding then taps don’t make much sound, but if the padding is thin or underneath the carpet is tile or concrete then you hear a louder thudding tap. It’s still pretty quiet. If you’re rolling the cane you would feel a little bit of drag, the cane moves slower over the carpet. The thicker or shaggier the carpet is, the more drag it has.

Wood floor: Cane tips make rumbling sounds when rolling over wood floors. The smoother the wood, the less it rumbles. There’s a little vibration moving from the cane tip, through the cane and into your hand as you roll over wood planks. Very small. The more sensitive you are to vibrations, the more you feel it. Tapping makes hallow, thudding sounds on the wood. Sometimes they sound a little snappish if you’re tapping harshly. You feel stronger vibrations when tapping. Older wood feels softer, with more give. New wood is stronger, more vibrations in the cane.

Tile:It depends on the size of the tiles and the wideness of the grout lines, but it’s not a pleasant feeling. Tiles have grout lines, which are little divets between the tiles. The smaller the tiles or rougher the grout lines are, the more the cane vibrates in your hands. Every bump is felt running from the cane to your hand. The sound is a little grating too. Imagine fifty sets of stiletto shoes walking on tile, that’s what it sounds like when you roll your cane over rough, small tiles. Larger tiles with smoother grout lines aren’t so bad. Tapping the tile with your cane sounds like one really loud step of a stiletto heal, one step for each tap. Tile floors are usually found in bathrooms, kitchens, and industrial locations where the room is going to have harder walls (more tile, concrete, etc) and few furniture, so the room echoes more.

Linoleum: is a smooth even surface. It feels like your cane is gliding when you roll it, barely feeling any vibrations. The rolling sounds are very soft because of the lack of bumps, however tapping sounds are a bit louder. Not as snappish as tile or marble, but almost.

Marble: is similar to linoleum in its smoothness. Your cane glides when rolling. Tapping sounds are sharp. Because marble floors are common in high end malls, luxury homes, and fancy office building entries, places that usually have high ceilings and hard walls with minimal decorations and minimalist furnishing, those sharp tapping sounds may echo. Assuming there isn’t too much noise and the environment is relatively quiet.

Concrete: (I’m referring to concrete found in parking garages and industrial buildings, not sidewalk) It depends on the age of the concrete and how it’s maintained. Old concrete with lots of cracks and mini-craters feels very different from smooth concrete that was set less than a year ago. With old concrete there’s a rattling sound as your cane tip rolls over the bumps and those vibrations travel up your cane. New concrete can feel similar to marble or linoleum. The taps are loud thuds on dull concrete and sharper on new concrete.

Sidewalks: are made of concrete, but in my experience they feel a little different than the above example. Sidewalks have a grittier surface, they’re slightly rougher, more dry. There’s a bit more rolling cane vibration with sidewalks and the taps have more of a thud sound. And because they’re outside, you’re unlikely to hear any echoes unless you’re walking in an alley or between buildings.

Asphalt: is one of the worst surfaces in my personal opinion. Asphalt is the material used in roads and it’s made to be rough and gritty so that car tires can grip onto it and not lose traction while driving. The older and more damaged it is, the rougher it is. Because it’s rough the vibrations are much stronger, sometimes irritatingly so. I can’t roll my cane over asphalt because the bones in my hand can’t handle those kinds of vibrations, so I almost always use the tapping method instead. The sounds are gritty and dull. Unfortunately, asphalt is an unavoidable surface, unless you can find a way to never need to cross a street or walk through a parking lot.

Note: the white or yellow lines that have been painted into asphalt sometimes feel smoother because of the material they’re made of and because they’re added after the asphalt has been laid down.

Note: There’s something called tarmac which is similar to asphalt, used for a similar purpose, and more common in the U.K. (I believe) but I can’t say that I’ve ever knowingly walked on it so I have no personal experience to give you.

Gravel: Another one of those evil surfaces. Gravel is just loose rocks and they’re common in rural roads, driveways, some landscaping. The looseness of them is what makes them untrustworthy. It makes a crunching sound. If you roll your cane, you’re likely to end up tossing small bits of rock and dust here and there. If you tap, you’ll hear the crunch but your brain might not translate that into “it’s gravel” until you’re walking on it and only realize when you walk over it and the sharp rocks begin digging into your shoes.

Wood Chips: I don’t have any experience with this since vision loss and getting a cane, so I’m using my memories of being on the playground in grade school because the surface on the playground was wood chips. I’d say wood ships are a love child between gravel and wood floors. The surface is loose and rolling your cane over it would kick up loose chips and dust. It would probably sound similar to walking on sand I think, because wood chips are much softer than gravel but not as consistent as wood. If it’s rained recently, then the waterlogged wood chips sound even softer.

Hard Dirt: I’m thinking dirt roads here, which are a lesser evil to asphalt and gravel. They can be rough like all roads, but the material isn’t has hard and solid. Rolling your cane will kick up dust on a dry day, but if it rained a few days ago you might hear a soft crunch as you roll over wet dirt. Tapping will have a very soft thud.

Soft Dirt: Think gardening dirt. Because it’s so soft, it makes very little sound and is easily kicked up. There’s a bit of drag, about the same or slightly more drag than grass or sand. Tapping has almost no sound but you might feel a slight give as your tip lands in the dirt, a slight resistance as it sinks in.

Mud: Yuck. I’m imagining this getting in my cane tip and how gross it would be after. Sound and feeling depend on how wet the mud is. Wet mud sounds slurpy. There’s more squish if you roll or tap your cane. Your character might not identify it right away until their shoes begin slipping as they walk over the mud. This is a personal experience. Drier mud sounds soft and feels almost solid underneath your cane. Wetter mud has more drag for a rolling cane. Muddy areas are also generally uneven because top soil has been displaced, so muddy hills and fields have unexpected but usually subtle changes in elevation.

Puddles: have both a slurpy and splash-splash sound. The slurpy sound is more common with rolling cane techniques. The splash sound is more common with tapping. The deeper the puddle, the louder is sounds and the more drag you experience. I am not fond of this texture/experience.

Snow: I have zero experience with snow since the development of blindness. So no experience of what it’s like to walk through with a cane. This is something I hope a blind reader can inform me on so I can edit this at a later date. My best guess is that it has a soft crunch, softer than the crunch of shoes in snow. A lot of drag too. Rolling through snow would probably be near impossible, especially if it’s deep snow or hard packed. Again, my best guess. The last time I experienced snow was when I was twelve.

Grass: One of my least favorites personally. Too much drag. Worse than shag carpeting. It’s very soft and doesn’t make much sound either. Like a crisp crunch you can barely hear. If the grass is wet or frosty you hear it a bit more crunch.

Surface with fallen Autumn leaves: Leaves everywhere! This is a bit dependant on whatever surface the leaves are on. It would soften the sound of cement, but there would be a louder crunch on grass. If the leaves are big and very curvy/pocketed then they’re easy to push aside. Smaller, flatter leaves don’t push as easily. The driest ones will crunch under your cane. It’s fun sometimes, if you’re the kind of person who likes stepping on leaves on purpose, but if you can’t see the leaves it might lose some of its fun and be more unexpected.

Sand: I’ve never personally taken my cane to the beach, despite living so close to the coast. The reason is because beach sand is so squishy and loose that it’s already impossible to stay steady on your feet. The sand is always sinking under your feet, unless you’re next to the water line and the dampness has made it firmer. So a cane isn’t very useful to me at the beach. Not to mention that sand isn’t something you want inside your cane joints if you want the cane to last. Sand will erode and damage the joints, regardless of if they’re metal or plastic. If I were to take my cane to the beach, it would make the softest crunching-swishy noise of sand sliding over sand, similar to what your footsteps sound like on sand, but possibly even quieter because canes are lighter.

Side Note: My mother sarcastically asked about rolling your cane through dog poop or gum left on the floor. Can’t say I’ve ever rolled through it, so couldn’t tell you. Use your imagination I guess, Mum

The Invention of Tactile Paving

These are amazing! Tactile Paving are those yellow (or sometimes grey) bumpy squares you see on ramps leading into parking lots or when crossing the street. In 1965, Japanese engineer Seiichi Miyake used his own money to develop a tactile brick that you could feel even when walking over it with shoes, and he designed this because a friend of his was losing their vision and he wanted to help. These are amazing, and accessible to everyone, even the blind who don’t have a cane or guide dog. These are literal life savers. Before I got my cane, if I felt those bumps under my shoes I knew to immediately stop because I was about to walk into the road. Because less than 10% of the blind community uses canes or guide dogs, this is the most accessible form of blind aide available.

[Image Description: a yellow rectangle of tactile paving in front of a ramp leading into a parking lot. End Image Description]

Note: similar detail, most doors in commercial buildings (in my localized experience) have a metal plate on the threshold to hold the door in place so there are no cracks underneath. The metal scraping sound when you roll or tap your cane on it is distinct but temporary and non-repeating, so it’s a good indication that you’ve reached and passed the threshold.

Blind-isms

I have a section in this guide about blind-isms, but these ones are focused specifically on cane use.

-Do. Not. Touch. My. Cane. Don’t. Just fucking don’t.

-The above ism comes from the fact that our cane is our safety net, an extension of our body, our eyes, the one thing that makes sure we’ll get somewhere safely. For that reason, blind people hate having their canes (or their on duty guide dogs) touched by strangers, acquaintances, friends we’re not very close to, some family members.

Important Note: That is a universal thing for disabled people. Don’t. Touch. Their. Mobility Aides. It’s assault. Touching someone’s wheelchair or pushing them around without their expressed permission is assault. Moving their wheelchair while the user is currently standing is assault. (Most wheelchair users are not paralyzed, but they still need the wheelchair because of their medical condition, which is not your business to know). It doesn’t matter if the wheelchair is in the way, the disabled person needs it right there, do not touch it. Touching or grabbing someone’s support cane or their long cane is assault. Touching or moving someone’s walker is assault. Touching, poking at, or tampering with someone’s hearing aids is assault. Touching their oxygen tank or cannula is assault.

Back on topic-

-Idle motions with your cane while waiting in line. I often rest my chin on my cane or lean on it

-twirl my cane like a staff when I’m alone and no one can see. I would not ever do this in front of anyone because I don’t want anyone thinking it’s a toy or they can just touch or grab it. I’m just a little childish and bored sometimes and idle motions are a common thing for people with ADHD.

-When carrying my folded cane inside (like say a store) I hang it from my wrist by the strap.

-Keeping my cane within arms reach at all times, even in situations where I don’t need it currently. Example: if we’re doing a classroom assignment where I need to leave my desk, I know the classroom well enough to not use my cane, but I won’t leave it at my desk, ever. (This does not apply at home. And in the homes of a very few, very trusted friends I will leave it somewhere I deem safe.)

-Having a set, specific place in my home (living with my immediate family, who almost never have guests) for my cane. In my case, it’s the top of an antique dresser in the living room, across from the door. It has a little bowl for my sunglasses as well. If I move out and have roommates, my cane will be in my room.

-Love me a bag or backpack that has enough space to discretely store your cane, but most of my bags cannot do that.

-People with folding canes develop a muscle memory for folding and unfolding their cane, so they can do it without really thinking about it.

-Unfolding my cane: I hold the black handle between my thumb and palm with my other fingers folded over the remaining three sections, cane tip pointing up. I slide the elastic over the tip, loosen my four fingers and roll my wrist to the side. The red colored section unfolds first and snaps into place with its neighboring section. I roll my wrist in the opposite direction so the next white section can unfold and snap into place with it’s neighboring section. Roll it back in the first direction and the third section snaps into place with the handle. My four section cane is now unfolded and straight.

-Sometimes I just grab the black handle and let the sections fall and unfold as they will, but this is less controlled and risks your cane bumping into something or someone.

-Folding my cane: I start with the black handle, lifting it up so the joints unlock. I fold it down, grab both sections in my hand and lift the second section away from the third and fold it over. Wrap my hand over all three sections and unlock it from the red section.

-Because I have a four section folding cane, the cane tip and the handle are on the same side while the metal joints are on the opposite side. Those metal joints are what my elastic slips over.

-A three or five folding cane will have the head of the handle (and its elastic) on the opposite side of the cane tip, and you will be folding the elastic over the cane joints and tip.

-A six section cane has the tip and handle facing the same direction like the four section cane.

-People with non-folding canes like leaning their canes up against walls and other objects when not in use. Corners are popular, the corner of a desk up against a wall too.

-But oh god the frustration when the cane randomly rolls out of place and hits the floor, it’s a combination of “Not again” and “did that really just happen” and “you had one job. one job.”

-Sitting with our cane tucked between our legs. Picture a bit of man spreading, the cane tip leaned against the side of our foot to keep it stable and the cane leaning against our shoulder or opposite knee, possibly also held securely with our fingers too.

-The no-manspreading alternative of that is with the cane leaning against our shoulder, cane tip resting on the toe of our shoe or the outside of it, held securely with our fingers or our arm wrapped around it, elbow hooking it.

(Okay, a while back I was looking for photos of someone using a cane to use as a reference for drawing Ulric. I only found three, and two of them were Daredevil promo photos. Which, no offense to Charlie Cox, but he is not blind and he does not use a cane in his daily life, he does not have that relationship a blind person has with a cane and the concept of a fifth limb, and it shows. So the photos were stiff and unusable, so I had to like use several photo references of different poses and Frankenstein them together to get what I wanted.

And I still haven’t finished the painting... fuck)

-In a car with a non-folding cane:

-Right passenger seat- The cane tip goes all the way into the corner of the foot well to the right of my feet, with the handle resting over my right shoulder or on the seatbelt. It pokes a bit past my headrest. The longer the cane, the harder it is to tuck into a car.

-The U.K. / Austrailian / New Zealand / Japan version of this (because they drive on the left side of the road with their drivers seats on the right side of the car) it’s like this: Cane tip in the foot well to the left of my feet, handle on my left shoulder or on the seatbelt.

Backseat: the absolute worst. There’s less foot well room, and if you’re in a sedan there is almost no room behind your shoulder for the handle. I position my cane diagonally with the handle on the shoulder closest to the door and the tip next to the foot closest to the middle.

-For this reason, no one with a non-folding cane will want to be sitting in the backseat.

About Guide Dogs

While my knowledge of guide dogs is limited only to what I can research and not personal, I will give you some basic facts and practical knowledge from said research.

Guiding Eyes for the Blind estimates that there are 10,000 guide dog teams out there in the world. That makes up 2% of the blind and visually impaired community.

Guide Dog Training

Becoming a guide dog is the most difficult form of dog training there is. The majority of dogs who enter guide dog training wash out and either become family dogs or go into a different type of service dog training, like medical response or PTSD/anxiety response, or possibly become therapy dogs, which is a career altogether different from being a service dog.

Guide dogs go through two or three years of training, which includes puppy training, basic socialization, proper behavior when on duty and actual guide training. Most service dogs only go through a year to a year and a half of training before they are partnered with a disabled handler.

Between the cost of training, the cost of housing and feeding the dog and the cost of vet bills from birth until being partnered with a blind handler, the overall cost of a guide dog is something like 30k to 40k. While most service dog training organizations require handlers to fundraise and pay for the cost of training (usually something like 15-30k), guide dog organizations give their dogs to qualified blind clients for free. These organizations pay for the dog costs through their own fundraising and charities. Fortunately for these organizations, guide dogs are a highly respected field and have a lot more charity directed their way, while other service dog types have less public interest when it comes to charity.

Guide Dog organizations have an application process, requirements, and a wait-list before you can be partnered with a guide dog.

Requirements to get a guide dog are (usually) as follows:

Must be legally blind (as in not visually impaired, but legally blind) and have had at least six months of O&M with a cane and demonstrate enough O&M stills to navigate by oneself. They also require you to be responsible enough to independently care for a dog, able to keep up with training and retraining of the dog, as well as financially able to handle food and vet bills (which are at least a few thousand dollars every year).

The reason for cane training before getting a guide dog is because the dog cannot do everything for you. You, the dog handler, are responsible for knowing where you are and how to get where you need to be.

The dog can’t read stop signs or tell when a light is green or red, nor do they have GPS to find a brand new location nor can they learn that route on the first try, nor will they know exactly where you want to go when you say “Starbucks” or “library” or “school” or “mom’s house” and guide you all by themselves. That falls on you, the dog handler, having enough orientation and mobility skills to know when a street is safe to cross and knowing how to learn new routes and how to keep on route and make sure you make the correct turns. A guide dog can’t communicate with bus drivers for you either, they don’t know which number bus to use or what stop to choose. That falls on the blind person’s own skill.

Other Guide Dog Resources

Molly Burke is a guide dog user and has made several videos about what kind of work guide dogs do, her personal experience being a guide dog user for over ten years, how she got a guide dog, specific commands, unique experiences with things like travel, etc. She has a playlist all about guide dogs, but here are some of my favorite videos.

How Guide Dogs Guide A Blind Person

Guide Dog User Answers the Most Googled Questions about Guide Dogs

How I Met My First Guide Dog

Final Thoughts:

There is a lot more to be said about Orientation and Mobility, such as:

How do you safely cross the street with a cane?

How do you learn new routes?

How does getting a cane significantly change your life?

How do family, friends, and strangers react to you “suddenly” having a cane?

I could also write a ton on other tools the blind community relies on so strongly, such as screen readers, magnifiers, etc. In fact, I originally promised to include those in my master post when Part Four was titled Part Four: What Your Blind Character Needs to Survive and Not Die. However, this guide is ages long and it feels better to focus on this specific topic for here.

Did you like this guide?

Consider checking out my other guides, links of which can be found on the master post here.

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starr-fall-knight-rise · 4 years

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Humans Are Space Orcs, “The hypothetical

I decided to go back to and play around with my older style of writing today. Taking a bi of a break from the main plot line for a little bit :)

As a doctor, I often wonder about hypotheticals. What would happen if my patient was injured in this way, what would I do. Working with humans I find each scenario has to be more outlandish than the next assuming the human is going to do something stupid.

However, in all my time with humans there is one hypothetical that I find most interesting: what would happen if early human/nonhuman communication never happened, and like animals in documentaries, or at zoos we learned about the humans purely through observation.

Humor me for a moment as I write this as I think it could be an interesting thought-experiment for the scientific community.

I imagine we would see them as a series of logs made by the zookeeper as the humans were captured and placed into their enclosures, not knowing that the humans were sentient.

I see it going something like this.

Day 1 - we encountered the strange creature on a distant planet. We have never seen anything like them before. They tall, though that is only by way of the walking bipedally. Their arms are very long, and their eyes face forward. We were forced to capture them through tranquilization as they were uncooperative. We have a group of them, about six that we released into the enclosure. They are very agitated, and we must do what we can to calm them or otherwise worry about causing them significant stress. I can see them now lying on the ground resting their heads, they do not look well from the drugs, but we hope that the side effects will not last long.

Day 2 - We have yet to determine the genders of the creatures or even if they have any. It is difficult to tell, though there are subtle anatomical differences that we assume might have some bearing on the subject. Luckily for us they ate within the first day, and continue to eat well. As far as we understand their diets, these creatures can eat a large range of food, more than any animal or alien we have ever seen, and this including meat, plants, and plant byproducts.

Day - 4 They have a very large range of vocalizations, in a very complex structure that almost seems as if they are speaking to one another. They grunt hiss click hum, and so much more. As far as we can tell, they seem very social and tend to congregate in a small circle to commune with each other. When they sleep, they tend to sleep in a large group, or within the same general vicinity of each other. It sees they have a strong pack mentality.

Day- 3 we were forced to move them to a new enclosure as, last night one of the zookeepers ran across the creatures scaling the wall of their enclosure using the digits on their hands and feet to hold to the rough surface and pull themselves upward. I and the other scientists are a bit put out as we should have known this based on the anatomy of their flexible toes, and the sockets of their shoulders. These creatures are very good at climbing. For this reason the new enclosure is much larger, it has a pool of water and many tall branches to climb though there is a field around it to keep the creatures form climbing out.

Day 4 - The pool was a good idea as the creatures seem to enjoy submerging themselves in water. We know now that their strangely colored skin is not actually skin but some kind of artificial covering. They take off this artificial skin if they enter the water and put it back on after they leave. We also know the difference between the males and the females now as the males have more defined muscular structures and the females are more rounded with softer angles. As far as we can determine there is no behavioral difference between the two species.

Day 5 - We think they know they are being watched, as they have a habit of obscuring themselves in the furthest end of the enclosure where it is difficult for them to be seen. They have even taken some of the fallen branches and erected a bit of a screen to hide away prying eyes, or at least that is how it seems. Some of our experts assume it was actually in order to build a proper nest though we cannot be entirely sure about that.

Day 30 - We are worried about one of the females. Her body structure has begun to change over these past few weeks, and her belly is becoming distended. We are worried about some sort of blockage or bloating caused by the misuse of food. The other creatures seem to be worried about her as well. We might go in and tranquilize her and bring her out to examine her at some point tomorrow.

Day 31 - we had to sedate every creature in the enclosure in order to pull the female out and separate er form her pack. We tried to separate her naturally from them, pulling her to one side of the enclosure, but it seemed as if they knew what we were doing and the other large males and the one aggressive female would not allow her to go. We had to dart all five of the others to capture her, though when we pulled her out we were delighted to find the reason for her distended belly has nothing to do with the food. It seems as if we had inadvertently picked up a pregnant alien creature., which is likely why the others were so protective over her. We worry though because upon examining the internal structures we are concerned that the head of the offspring will not be large enough to fit through the pelvis. We are not sure if this is what the natural progression of their child bearing is supposed to look like.

Day - 50 we have been doing some tests on our creatures and have found a few interesting things. Their senses are far superior to our own. We once thought that their eyes would be adapted to hunting and racking movement, and while that is true in low light situations, they actually have very sharp sense of binocular vision, and are very competent at guessing distances. They seem to be a primary visual creature, and we assume that their vision is even better than ours. There is some evidence that they can even see somewhat in the dark, though based on our examination of their behavior they are primarily a daytime animal.

Day - 61 We think that they can hear us talking outside the enclosure. In fact, we think they have a very sensitive set of hearing organs. They often behave in ways that make us think they might be able to hear us. They always seem to know when we are coming into the enclosure to feed them. They tend to stand very close and watch us very carefully. We are worried that they might attack, but so far they have not. The most disconcerting is the large male and the smaller female. The way they watch some of our handlers unnerves them, and I am going to have to hire new hands to help with this project

Day 70 - They can use tools! It is an exciting and amazing discovery. But just the other day we say them begin to make things using strips of their own not-skin and some branches. They have tied rocks together and are even using them to smash up bits of food. Their hands seem very capable of doing such things as they are actually quite delicate in their movements. Each diget can be controlled to the finest degree and the rotational movement of their wrist implies extreme dexterity. Many of us think that this leaves them on a path towards sentience. Our scientists estimate that they have the intellectual capabilities of a five-year-old child.

Day 90 - great progress has been made! The creatures extreme vocalizations has added to their advantage, in that we have taught them how to speak! The sentences are very rudimentary of course, like a child, but they can ask for food, help, and express their displeasure. However, the problem is, they seem to have discovered greater words of displeasure from the people observing them and have taken to yelling rude slurs at the attraction goers. We think they like getting a reaction. They are very aggressive, and are becoming more so as the days go by. We worry about their health.

Day 100 - two of the large males got into a fight yesterday. We assume it was over mating rites with the remaining female, though that is only a theory. The way the creatures fight is very strange, they ball their hands into fists and then hit each other like using a club. Sometimes they use the hard bony ends of their elbows, or the tips of their knees. A few times they even used their legs to strike at the other. The feat of balance was quite amazing and the power generated from blows like that was scary. Visitors were urged away from the enclosure when wounds started appearing. Both males were covered in blood. We had gone to sedate them but by the time we came back the fight was over and the two males were sitting with each other at the edge of the pool washing their wounds. We think they find the water soothing, though we worry about sickness or infection.

Day 140 - We cannot get to them, overnight and out of sight of our keepers they have constructed a sort of den or nest surrounded by thick leaves and tree bark. There is no way to see in, and there is no way to dart one of these creatures while on the inside. We have been to get them while they are out in the open, but they always hear when the enclosure or the windows open and have taken to carrying around large shields made of leaves and branches. None of our darts have made it through sticking uselessly into branches. We worry greatly considering the female is coming closer and closer to her delivery day.

Day 170 - We have a plan for sedation, though it will require an enforcement team armed with the tranquilizer guns to preform it. We are worried about the female and the offspring, which we intend to rear by hand. We have no idea how the other larger humans are going to react when the smaller human is brought into the enclosure. They could kill it. We do not want this happening, and besides, we think this creature could be very docile if hand raised by us.

Day 181 - The mother went into labor last night, and we were called in by one of the zookeepers. We have to act very fast and are assembling a team. We are worried she might die as the sounds coming from the enclosure has caused us to close down the entire zoo. She seems to be in great pain as we have never heard a creature make that sound before. All of the creatures seem agitated as well, those who are not in the enclosure with them are pacing around outside. They seem very nervous.

The team has been assembled and it has been quiet for some minute except for a distant squalling. The large ales and other creatures are encircling the little habitat as if curious. We are worried the large males will find this as a sign ofweakness and attack.

Day 182 - please help us. We went into the enclosure as we had assumed with hour weapons ready to take the little offspring away to safer area for cleaning, however as soon as we got close to the den, the creatures attacked. We did not see them camouflaged in the leaves, and they seemed to erupt out of nowhere. Our leader was violently bludgeoned with a rock, and another was strangled manually by the small female. Each one of them was violently killed.

Two of our team managed to make it to the door of the den but as they did, the still blood covered female leaped outward and attacked screaming. She was the most violent out of all of them and practically ripped the limbs off two of our men before killing them. Protecting her young.

The large male carried the sleeping creature fin his arms as the female searched around for any more survivors. There were none and the door had been left open. One of our valiant men tried to go and close it, but he was murdered as the door was flung open crushing him against the back wall. The child was handed back to the mother and now they are hunting about the zoo in a pack. I have locked myself in this room hoping they will not find me, but even now I can hear a rattling outside the door.

Day of freedom - Hello you slimy bastards. Didn’t think you could talk did you. Either way you better hope we get back to our home planet, otherwise we will take this one for ourselves and make you suffer till your bones bleach dry under and unforgiving sun.

A little bit melodramatic there at the end I know, but I have spent far to long with humans, and I understand that they would probably be just as dramatic as I am making it sound. Also, I just realized that I technically just wrote some fiction, which means the humans are definitely rubbing off on me

#humans are space orcs #HUMANS ARE WEIRD #humans are insane #humans are space australians #humans are space oddities #earth is a deathworld #Earth is space Ausralia

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Justice League: Snyder Cut

(DISCLAIMER: MY OPINION IS MY OWN AND CAN BE DEEMED INVALID TO THOSE WHO DON’T CARE FOR IT.)

Oh, the time has come my friends! Now, I originally did a review on Batman V.S. Superman and I didn’t care for it, so I deleted it. But before I start, I would like y’all to read this statement made by @verified-villain-fxcker - You can click HERE to read it. As I stated in my repost, I couldn’t have said it better. May Autumn Snyder continue to rest in peace. Let’s get started!

It’s been so long since I’ve made a post I can’t even remember how I do this LOL.

CLARK is outta there to say the least...

WONDER WOMAN and LOIS look flabbergasted, as they should... BRUCE as well.

Talk about a shock-wave scream

All jokes aside, the hate that LEX has towards SUPERMAN is just to much energy to be giving to another person..

THESE BITCHIES ARE READY

why are they letting a minority approach the fucking the cube?!?!

*insert travel montage scene here*

Part 1 - “Don’t count on it, Batman.”

BRUCE knows damn well he’s talking to AQUAMAN. Let’s move this shit along lol

“Oh Gotham? How’s that shit hole?” - AQUAMAN

Ik these bitchies aren’t singing rofl

I’d sniff anything wore by Jason Momoa too.

“Maybe a man who broods in a cave isn’t cut out to be a recruiter.” - ALFRED

TALK YO SHIT ALFRED!!!!

AMY ADAMS can literally take my heart, step on it, throw it in a river and I still wouldn’t be mad.

Here comes the lovely WONDER WOMAN!

broooo her hands were moving like Donnie Yen in Ip Man!

Fucked that entire ceiling up

Ofc the one who tried to touch it would make the stupid statement.

STEPPENWOLF is really wildin’ out

Don’t look back! I hate it when they look back!!

These are some strong as women!

PART 2 - “The Age of Heroes”

“It’s toxic, that’s good.” - STEPPENWOLF

I can only imagine that this is how toxic people think.

this dude really just threw that lil demon fella like it was nothin’ lmao

You know you're working at a job for too long when you say this is the first time in a while that they're going home early smdh

Now that shit was pretty lit....

SILAS thinkin’ shit I better check on my son.

“You know a lot about monsters, don’t you? Especially how to make them.” - CYBORG

If that isn’t teen angst, then I don’t know wtf is lmao

Seeing Gal in this tomb makes me want to re-watch Wonder Woman 1 all over again!

DARKSEID ol’ trifflin’ ass

plopped him down like he was dirty laundry

God bless Willem Dafoe, this man is a fuckin’ legend!

“This world is divided. They’re a primitive species. Unevolved and at war with one another. Too separate to be one.” - STEPPENWOLF

DeSaad kinda looks like Doctor Doom in the Fantasic Four reboot lmao

GREEN LATERNS!!!!!!!!!!!! OH SHIT!!!!!!!!

we really need a Green Lantern Corps moving...

ZEUS + ARES = A Dynamic Duo When They Aren’t Being Dicks To Each Other

You know I feel bad for man because all they did was bury that shit in the ground rofl

Part 3 - “Beloved Mother, Beloved Son”

BARRY + IRIS = Love at First Sight

The burger can’t be that good like damn.

Bro the detail on his fucking shoes and the glass!!

ROFL PLEASE TELL ME HE TOOK THE HOTDOG FOR HIS DOG!?!?

damn did the car really need to explode...

lol BARRY must really need the job lol

... I would’ve just played dead after he threw me against that rock...

Man of Steel probably has one of the best soundtracks not just for a superhero movie but just in general

Americans love their football!

I have this love-hate relationship with CYBORG being in the JL and not with the TITANS you know since he’s a kid, but he’s a college student in this one.

Thank God DIANA spoke with VICTOR instead of BRUCE because I honestly don’t think he would’ve gotten him on board.

Everyone can literally zigzag zoom across this planet at undeniable speed except for BATMAN lol

Come on, VIC, help the lady out.

You know honestly, BARRY has a pretty cool pad for someone who's trying to get by paying for a Criminal Justice Degree.

“A very attractive Jewish boy. Who drinks milk, I don’t drink milk.” - BARRY

“Fuck the World.” - CYBORG

dang Ik DIANA has every right to grieve over STEVE, but damn that man has her whipped!

“You’re looking at the hottest thing on Earth. The exact same thing I said to my prom date. She dumped me anyway.” - RYAN CHOI

Why does MERA have an accent in this but not in AQUAMAN?? (ik the answer)

DAAAYYUUUMMMN MERA TURNED INTO A WHOLE BLOOD BENDER!

PART 4 - “Change Machine”

CYBORG just glided over silently

STEPPENWOLF + WONDER WOMAN = EPIC FIGHT SCENE

Seeing BARRY move like that to stop the debris and to ping DIANA’S sword really is amazing..

But he should not be screaming like that LOL

How do you not remember the planet that’s habitants almost killed you?? Because if that was me, I wouldn’t have forgotten that shit at all!

Would've held a big ass grudge until I could go back.

“I know we’re all thinking the same thing right now. Who’s gonna say it? I’m not gonna say it.” - BARRY

WOOOAAHHH J’ONN JONES?! (forgot about that)

“There are six, not five. There is no us without him.” - BRUCE

Damn, no faith at all

PART 5 - “ALL The King’s Horses”

ICONIC DIALOGUE

BARRY - “Wonder Woman. What do you think, man? You think she’d go for a younger guy?”

VICTOR - “She’s 5,000 years old, Barry. Every guy is a younger guy.”

I would’ve kept swippin’ that ID like a cashier at Wal-Mart swippin’ a debit card.

They're movin’ a little too slow for me. Ik they’ve never been on the ship before, but I would’ve been zoomin’ through that entire ship just to hurry and get the job done.

NOT THE PREGNANCY TEST

Damn, they couldn’t have at least picked up the photo??

The foreshadowing was spectacular! It will always amaze me.

I’m sure Allstate will cover that person’s car...

Just when LOIS was about to move on.

CLARK grabbed DIANA like miss me with that Rafiki shit.

I would’ve come back to my senses too after looking at Amy Adams.

AQUAMAN + THE FLASH = A CONUNDRUM

DR. SILAS takin’ one for the team

PART 6 - “Something Darker”

As crazy as radiation is, it’s quite an amazing spectacle.

I wish this Justice League movie could’ve held off until we got some other heroes such as the Green Lanterns, Hawkgirl, and many others.

Our generation was truly blessed to have an incredible actor as SUPERMAN, and we are not putting him to use!

JONATHAN sounds like President Biden lol

Alright, team?! Break!

AQUAMAN is totally enjoying this fight. He rode that Parademon like a surfboard.

AQUAMAN + CYBORG + FLASH = *THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN*

I swear every scene that WONDER WOMAN enters into does not fail to include the “Ancient Lamentation Music”.

VICTOR hurry up and say “one” god damnnit!!

SUPERMAN COLD!!!!

Somebody needs to put this fight on WorldStar

BARRY = HE’S A RUNNA HE’S A TRACK STAHHHHARRR!!!

THAT WAS FUCKING IMMACULATE

The Unity = The Three Bitchies

I bet DARKSEID will remember that shit now

EPILOGUE - “A Father Twice Over”

VICTOR = A Final Requiem

LOL VULKO and MERA look stressed tf out!

“Uh, I have too much to live for. And more important things to do.” - LEX

A cocky motherfucker LMAO

Alright, we’re back in this type of dream sequence.

“Who have you ever loved?” - MERA

Uh, bitch his parents, Robin tf?!

Thank you, JOKER, for stating the facts for Ms. Fish-stick

Oh shit, they let LOIS die, goddamn it!

HARLEY’S DEAD TOO?!?!?!

BRUCE LOOK SICK AF!!!

Well, the dream is over once again...

I just don’t see how people can live with all those fuckin’ windows.

“Oh, and some have called me The Martian Manhunter.” - J’ONN

Alright...

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Yes, the movie was long but what needed to be expressed was. As we already the Snyder Cut wasn’t supposed to be seen because a father simply wanted to grieve the death of his child. I’ll once again reiterate what @verified-villain-fxcker you don't have to like the film but at least give it the benefit of the doubt from its predecessor. For me, I did enjoy watching his version, but let’s be honest what he who shall not be named did was just fucked up.

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